All of these are accents that can be placed above letters. For example, if you press the Ctrl key and the grave key at the same time, you will create a grave accent symbol.

For typing a capital À (A with grave accent), press Ctrl+Alt+7 first (using the number 7 from the top row, not the numeric keypad), then release these keys and press Shift+A.

2 Grave accent. Or, rather, voilà. This one, however, isn’t found by pressing option-a, as you might imagine. Oh no. But it’s actually one of the easiest to find because the key has the ...

In the 1940 film “The Bank Dick,” W.C. Fields’ character, Egbert Sousé, explains that his name is pronounced “soo-ZAY, accent grave over the ‘e.’” Otherwise, of course, it would ...

In the 1940 film “The Bank Dick,” W.C. Fields’ character, Egbert Sousé, explains that his name is pronounced “soo-ZAY, accent grave over the ‘e.’” Otherwise, of course, it would ...